The snake is one of the most feared animals by humans. The causes vary, starting from the assumption that all the snakes have a can, a feeling of disgust, to the people who do not even know the reason afraid of snakes. As part of the food chain, the snake has an important role in maintaining ecosystems. Perhaps in elementary school we often hear how great the material that has been preying services rat snake, so Mr. Farmer field free of pests.
In the world alone there are about 1800 species of snakes and hundreds of its kind in Indonesia. This is not surprising considering that Indonesia is a tropical country so it has a relatively large vegetation. Vegetation is a habitat for animals including snakes. Therefore, in Indonesia snakes can be found almost everywhere, including in the settlement of the snake warga.Ketakutan actually a natural thing, considering the snake is one of the dangerous animal. Some of them have venom, and large snakes like python and boa constrictor wrapped around its prey to death can. But keep in mind that not all deadly snakes. Snakes tend to shy away when humans encounter. They attack when under threat.
There is some interesting research on a person's fear of snakes. Judy S. Vanessa LoBue and DeLoache University of Virginia found that fear of snakes is the result of human evolution as part of a mammal. Fear is a form of human self-defense to avoid the risks that might threaten her safety. For example, people are screaming hysterically see the snake is actually a defensive reaction in the hope that there are other people who saved him. Both researchers used subjects aged 1-2 years old baby who shows snakes through video and pictures and compare them to other animals through the same method. The result is that infants show reduced intensity seen snakes when compared with other animals such as giraffes. Of course it is difficult to accept that this reaction is a form of fear. But keep in mind that the subject is the behavior of infants who have more limited when compared with adults include fear behavior. In general, the results of this study confirmed that the fear of snakes is an innate human instinct as a mammal. Given the snakes also prey on mammals: D
In addition there is research on fear of snakes is carried out by Pavol Prokop, Murat Ozel, Muhammet Uşakc. The subject of this research is the third student from Slovakia and Turkey. Some interesting findings was that women appeared to have higher levels of fear of snakes when compared with men. This is due to her belief in herself that she is less capable in dealing with situations that endanger themselves, one of which is physical weakness. In addition, women are also more negative regarding the myth the myth the serpent second finding is that students majoring in biology have come from a lower level of fear when compared with students from other majors. This is due to the knowledge of living creatures, including snakes are more realistic and logical. The third is the finding that students who have pets have lower fear of snakes when compared to students who do not keep pets. This is due to raising animals will make a person knowledgeable about the characteristics of animals, increasing the intensity of the relationship something related to nature, and generate feelings of empathy. And the last results of this study is that the fear of snakes is also influenced by the extent of insight, knowledge and myths that he believes about the snake.
From both the above studies we can find how treatments or treatment that may be done so that the fear of snakes can be reduced. Usually there are some circumstances where we are in an environment that makes us see the potential for higher snakes. For example, a job as soldiers, gardeners, zoo officials, forest guards, etc.. Certainly be very inconvenient if the person who is, as already mentioned above, has a tremendous fear of snakes.
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